Les sainctes prieres de l'ame chrestienne
A 1644 Paris prayer book of devotional texts for Christian readers, made by the calligrapher Pierre Moreau and preserved in the John Davis Batchelder Collection at the Library of Congress. Each page sets a handwritten Latin or French prayer inside an engraved frame of scrollwork, cherubs, foliage, masks and urns. A designer might take from these the decorative border system, where ornament is built as a continuous rectangular frame around a central text block.
